St. Irvyne (Annotated)

St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian (1811) is Percy Bysshe Shelley's youthful Gothic romance, a darkly extravagant tale of banditti, seduction, guilt, occult ambition, and the fatal allure of forbidden knowledge. Its plot, divided between the outlaw Wolfstein and the mysterious Ginotti, unfolds in a fevered idiom of storms, ruined landscapes, spectral dread, and melodramatic revelation. Though structu...